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A comment on the question "twitter, ichat, jabber, always awaiting authorization, cant twitter!" in Twitter:

Thanks again mdy!
I'm glad to hear that! – xtremsportsdude, on June 30, 2008 06:19

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mdy replied on June 29, 2008 12:29 to the question "twitter, ichat, jabber, always awaiting authorization, cant twitter!" in Twitter:

Hi xtremsportsdude. There was an update or two posted at another thread around 2 to 3 weeks ago where they said they're rebuilding IM instead of just 'repairing' it. I think if there are official announcements in the future, it will most likely be posted there or on the Twitter Status blog.

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xtremsportsdude replied on June 26, 2008 05:34 to the question "twitter, ichat, jabber, always awaiting authorization, cant twitter!" in Twitter:

I agree with waffles, twitter was up and running fine in gtalk until a month ago. In gmail twitter@twitter.com doesn't show up as online but i would still get tweets from people, but i couldn't update twitter from gtalk.
Then i deleted the account thinking it was just faulty and tried to reactivate it, but i sent it invite to chat with noo repsonse for a week!
Seriously......
I am really frustrated with this whole mess and all the down time, I can understand a couple of hours, maybe a couple of days, but weeks?!?! MONTHS?!?!
How long?
Maybe you should just remove the feature until you decide it is important enough to fix it PROPERLY!

twitter fix yourself or I'm just gonna (sadly) find a replacement.

Or at least let us know what the deal is.
Even let us know if you don't know what it is exactly, but you hope you find out soon!

liberalart replied on June 26, 2008 04:28 to the question "twitter, ichat, jabber, always awaiting authorization, cant twitter!" in Twitter:

I had a fiat in college that was more reliable than twitter, a fiat for god's sake. What a mess.

waffles replied on June 26, 2008 04:25 to the question "twitter, ichat, jabber, always awaiting authorization, cant twitter!" in Twitter:

Yep, same one. With no end in sight, I'm telling everyone I know just to stay away. It's a cool idea in theory, but any service that has downtime for something that lasts this long is just sad.

A comment on the question "twitter, ichat, jabber, always awaiting authorization, cant twitter!" in Twitter:

Seriously this is the same outage since the lat time I tried to activate chat?

Every couple weeks I try to activate my twitter because clients ask about it and I 'm curious to what extent it's really useful and not a blip trend. (I work with political orgs to get online) And frankly, how can give anything but a poor review of a product that refuses to even turn on for users.

"sure your campaign can twitter, but only if they fix it so you sign up and authorize, and that goes down for a month or two at a time." I know I'll just say twitter is out of season, like oysters. "Your campaign could twitter, but if try now it'll make you sick. Best to wait till it's in season again, though I don't know when that is."

What a piece of crap. – liberalart, on June 26, 2008 04:19

waffles replied on June 25, 2008 20:44 to the question "twitter, ichat, jabber, always awaiting authorization, cant twitter!" in Twitter:

Throw eggs at the Twitter offices until IM comes back or we get real information about what's taking so long and when we can expect it back. After all, it's been down for over a month now.

I don't really advocate violence or wasting eggs. But if it gets things done...

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damon asked a question in Twitter on June 24, 2008 21:14:

twitter, ichat, jabber, always awaiting authorization, cant twitter!

Trying to use my jabber account to send updates. Added a buddy in ichat (jabber, twitter@twitter.com), it sends it off for authorization, but it just stays that way.. awaiting authorization. Any ideas?